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javcasas 5 days ago

Neither you can deduce that car and carpet aren't related. For god's sake, even cars have carpets inside to add to the confusion!

latexr 4 days ago | parent [-]

Please don’t strawman. It’s that kind of exaggerated bad faith argument that propagates anti-intellectualism in society.

I can’t believe I’m having to explain this, but you can show people a car and a carpet and they’ll understand how they differ. But if you show them two different programming languages, most people won’t be able to tell the difference. Just like most people see Chinese and Japanese, Swedish and Finnish, Portuguese and Spanish, and don’t know enough to distinguish one from the other, despite them having different names. They’re just similar-looking symbols organised in different ways.

dennis_jeeves2 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

>I can’t believe I’m having to explain this

You shouldn't, the guy arguing with is you is most likely an idiot, or trolling.

ddtaylor 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

and

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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ddtaylor 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is someone who has no understanding of anything related to the material running HR at this fictional company?

javcasas 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Please don’t strawman. It’s that kind of exaggerated bad faith argument that propagates anti-intellectualism in society.

Sure. Now I'm guilty of all the anti-intellectualism we are seeing, and the propagandists get to walk free, but ok.